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Solana Vergen

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Solana Vergen was the head of the Vergen industrial cartel on Pavonis.

History

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Before the so-called "Nightbringer" insurrection, Solana's father, Leotas, was killed in a workers' riot while trying to defend his long-time friend and ally, Governor Mykola Shonai.[1a] Solana held no loyalty to her father's politics, or his liberal attitude towards the cartel's labourers, vowing to crack down on the latter and abandon Shonai without compunction.[1b]

One of her father's last actions was to betroth her to the son of Vendare Taloun, another powerful cartel head. Taloun saw this as a way of co-opting the Vergen under his own cartel, but Solana, who had already shared her fiance's bed, had heard drunken mutterings from the younger Taloun that she knew would give her leverage - for instance, that it was no mere rumour that Vendare had murdered his elder brother for leadership of the cartel.[1a][1d]

Holding the Vergen cartel's seat in the Pavonis Senate, she joined the other major cartels' vote of no confidence in Governor Shonai, to the latter's fury.[1c]

Solana was looking forward to a powerful and lucrative partnership with Taloun and Kasimir de Valtos, in which she fully intended to play an active part and take her share; she was unfortunately unaware that de Valtos was a murderous psychopath who relieved his internal torment by torturing young men and women. Invited to his estate for a business dinner, she soon found herself a prisoner.[1e]

When storming de Valtos's estate, Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris found Solana's mutilated remains on de Valtos's bed, scarcely recognizable as human anymore. De Valtos privately reflected that the experience of torturing and murdering Solana had been "exquisite," enough to keep his daemons at bay for a while.[1f]

In the aftermath of Vergen's death, her cartel fell into disarray.[1g]

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